Sentences with phrase «by palaeo»

This insight, backed by the palaeo - climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire hierarchy of climate models.

``... the three researchers write that they «provide experimental support for suggestions and simulation studies predicting that reductions in CO2 alone could have led to loss of tree cover in grassy environments in the last glacial (Bond et al., 2003; Harrison and Prentice, 2003),» and they say that «the large increases in CO2 from industrial emissions over the last century would now favor trees at the expense of grasses,» which conclusion is supported by palaeo - records that indicate that «trees disappeared from current savanna sites in South Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum (Scott, 1999), re-appeared in the Holocene, and have rapidly increased over the last half century,»... Read More

Its second name, buelli, honours the exceptional illustrations of extinct whales produced by palaeo - artist Carl Buell.

Not exact matches

A new paper by Levermann et al. in PNAS uses the record of past rates of sea level rise from palaeo archives and numerical computer models to understand how much sea level rise we can expect per degree of warming in the future.

At the end of Planet of the Apes (1960s version), when Charlton Heston in the year 3978 was about to discover the humanity had destroyed itself in nuclear war, all the palaeo - evidence pertaining to the human past was ordered to be destroyed by the bigwig academics of the day.

The importance of such thaw - discontinuities can not be underplayed in a model of catastrophic devolatilisation (Shakhova, 2014), as illustrated by Mars where violent degassing equivalent to 20 Yamal explosions per km ² occurs through sub-mound palaeo - taliks alone (e.g., Figure above).